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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 28

The ju-ju man said that he would live, and that some day one of his sons would discover something which the Okuni people had never heard of or known before.

Who acts: ju man, man, day, Okuni people · What happens: say, live, discover, not hear, know · To what, where: something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ju man, man, day, Okuni people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

detcompoundpunctcompoundnsubjmarknsubjauxccomppunctccmarkdetnsubjflatcasenmod:possnmodauxconjobjobjdetcompoundnsubjauxadvmodacl:relcloblccconjadvmodpunctrootTheDETjuNOUN-PUNCTjuNOUNmanNOUNsaidVERBthatSCONJhePRONwouldAUXliveVERB,PUNCTandCCONJthatSCONJsomeDETdayNOUNoneNUMofADPhisPRONsonsNOUNwouldAUXdiscoverVERBsomethingPRONwhichPRONtheDETOkuniPROPNpeopleNOUNhadAUXneverADVheardVERBofADPorCCONJknownVERBbeforeADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 mandet
2jujuNOUNNumber=Sing4 jucompound
3--PUNCT_2 jupunct
4jujuNOUNNumber=Sing5 mancompound
5manmanNOUNNumber=Sing6 saidnsubj
6saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7thatthatSCONJ_10 livemark
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 livensubj
9wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin10 liveaux
10liveliveVERBVerbForm=Inf6 saidccomp
11,,PUNCT_21 discoverpunct
12andandCCONJ_21 discovercc
13thatthatSCONJ_21 discovermark
14somesomeDETPronType=Ind15 daydet
15daydayNOUNNumber=Sing21 discovernsubj
16oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card15 dayflat
17ofofADP_19 sonscase
18hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 sonsnmod:poss
19sonssonNOUNNumber=Plur16 onenmod
20wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin21 discoveraux
21discoverdiscoverVERBVerbForm=Inf6 saidconj
22somethingsomethingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind21 discoverobj
23whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel29 heardobj
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 peopledet
25OkuniOkuniPROPNNumber=Sing26 peoplecompound
26peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur29 heardnsubj
27hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 heardaux
28neverneverADVPronType=Neg29 heardadvmod
29heardhearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part22 somethingacl:relcl
30ofofADP_29 heardobl
31ororCCONJ_32 knowncc
32knownknowVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part29 heardconj
33beforebeforeADV_32 knownadvmod
34..PUNCT_6 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastthe ju manvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2livewouldmanvn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3discoverwouldsome daysomethingvn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic
4not hearpast · perfectthe Okuni peoplewhich objvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
5knowparticiplethe Okuni people not said herebefore propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Project Gutenberg book 70959 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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